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gukov on July 16, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Who’s behind Wednesday’s epic Twitter hack?

Social proof. People would see others donating and assume it was indeed legit.

luhn on July 17, 2020 [–]

It would make sense to do a handful of transactions for that purpose, but hundreds of transactions totaling over a hundred thousand dollars?

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